ROD Amendment for Upper Basin and Box
Bunker Hill/Coeur d'Alene Sitewide Information
Cleanup Areas:
Cleanup underway at Golconda Mine and Mill site.
National Superfund Information
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Proposed Cleanup Plan
Proposed Plan Public Comment Period Closed
The public comment period on the Proposed Upper Basin Cleanup Plan ended on November 23, 2010. In response to requests from citizens and elected officials, the comment period was extended to 135 days. We received hundreds of comments during the comment period. We know the cleanup is important to local citizens, and we are considering what changes need to be made to the cleanup plan in response to community concerns. We are preparing a "Response to Comments" document which will include both a response to each comment and a summary response to each issue. It will take some time before commenters get a response back from EPA. The Response to Comments will be issued to the public at the same time as the ROD Amendment, the final cleanup decision document. We anticipate these documents will be available later this year.
Topics of Discussion about the Proposed Cleanup Plan
The Upper Coeur d'Alene Basin Proposed Cleanup Plan
The Proposed Plan and full copies of the Draft Focused Feasibility Study are available on CD at select local libraries or by contacting the staff listed below.
Background
EPA will set priorities for ecological cleanup work in the Upper Basin and Box. Planning is happening to update some EPA cleanup decisions.
A map of the Coeur d'Alene Basin.
The Upper Basin includes the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River and its tributaries downstream to where they flow into the North Fork. The Box is the 21-square-mile area around the old Bunker Hill smelter where EPA began its cleanup activities in the early 1980s.
The goal of this new effort is to set out a comprehensive, holistic cleanup approach across the Basin to improve water quality. EPA will select more cleanup actions for the Upper Basin and Box, and prepare an amendment to the Record of Decision (ROD). A ROD amendment is a change to the current Record of Decision that guides overall cleanup in the Basin. Under the Superfund law, EPA is responsible for modifying the ROD. A Proposed Plan will be provided for public comment. EPA hopes to complete the ROD amendment by the end of 2010.
Upper Coeur d'Alene Basin National Remedy Review Board Evaluation:
Executive Summary for the Draft Focused Feasibility Study (PDF) (22 pp. 286K) . Full copies of the Draft FFS are available on CD at select local libraries or by contacting the staff listed below.
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Fact Sheets
Meetings
Technical Memos
Draft Documents
The Proposed Plan and full copies of the Draft Focused Feasibility Study are available on CD at select local libraries or by contacting the staff listed below.
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